Washington City Savings Bank v. Thornton
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of- city of Alexandria,, rendered January 12th, 1884, in the cause of Washington City Savings Bank and others, complainants, against Joseph Tliornton, Wm. H. Marbury, M. Dulaney Ball, and Thomas Thornton, defendants. On demurrer the circuit court dismissed the bill; and the complainants appealed. Opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
Lewis, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
*163In August, 1869, Joseph Thornton and wife and William H. Dulaney, commissioner, sold and conveyed to William H. Davis a certain tract of land in Fairfax county for the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Thornton conveyed his interest in the land with a covenant of special warranty. On the same day Davis executed to Thornton his six negotiable notes, aggregating the above mentioned sum, and payable in one, two, three, four, five and six years from their date, respectively. And at the same time he executed a deed of trust on the land to…
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